The first thing you need to do is go read Ryan Lizza's piece in the New Yorker entitled "The Obama Memos". I can tell already this is one of those stories that is going to have some staying power with... Read More
From an email alert I got from POLITICO today: The U.S. added 243,000 jobs in January - far exceeding expectations of about 150,000 jobs - and the unemployment rate dipped to 8.3 percent from 8.5 percent in December, the Labor... Read More
A few weeks ago, I sort of wondered out loud what the political impact would be if the economy sort of modestly continued to improve over the next few months leading up to the election. Not necessarily what people are... Read More
I was walking the dog tonight, thinking about my obligatory State of the Union post. The theme is, An America Built to Last, and I suspect President Obama will pepper his speech with a number of successful, local initiatives across... Read More
Wake up and good morning. Just an early morning note of caution to the brief euphoria we've started to see about the Florida housing market in early 2012. The optimists suggest we've hit bottom on home prices and our inventory of unsold homes is now sm... Read More
After the 2010 election, still trying to make a difference. Alex Sink was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Florida and faced Republican nominee Rick Scott in the 2010 state gubernatorial election, losing to Scott by a 1 percent margin. AP photo.... Read More
Wake up and good morning. An 11-year-old private Tampa firm called Enporion that carved a niche providing supply chain software and productivity services to the utility industry will announce today that it has been acquired by a larger competitor in Ne... Read More
It's not necessarily worth breaking out the pricey champagne and noisemakers just yet, but there is good economic news out today: the nation added 200,000 jobs, which is evidently a "robust" number. That's just good news in general. As it... Read More
Are gas prices heading for a new record? Graph courtesy of Daily Fuel Gauge Report. Wake up and good morning. So what happens when the early optimism of 2012 over a seemingly improving economy meets $4 a gallon gas by this summer? ... Read more Read More
